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I intend to fulfil a long cherished notion that I would go to the West of Ireland and for a week or so base myself in Cong, Co. Mayo. Spreading out from that hub, I would over the days visit the various locations where the greatest film ever made about Ireland was crafted and created in the middle of the last century........but still within living memory !!!There I would hope to visit the restaurants ( or were they 'aating houses' ?....and the pubs with the low ceilings and maybe the Castletown Railway Station where " 'twas a soft day when the train pulled in and himself got off".

BUT....maybe it's all gone.....maybe it no longer exists in any way, shape or form ? Maybe I'm living in cloud cuckooland ? Or will I meet Maureen looking for 'that man o' mine' or big John bellowing for 'Mary Kate Danaher'....."I got no dowry but yer still my woman".

There are several places from the movie that still exist. As was already mentioned, what is referred to as "The Quiet Man Bridge" (even the signage calls it that) is in Oughterard, Co. Galway. Here's a website that has a photo of it:http://oughterard.galway-ireland.ie/quiet-man-bridge.htm. In the little village of Cong (which is adorable, just by the way), there is a place called the Quiet Man Cottage Museum (http://www.museumsofmayo.com/quietman.htm), which is located in a building/house that was designed as an exact replica of 'White-o-Mornin' Cottage from the movie. The museum will provide you with a guide to other sites from the movie that you can visit.

If you go to the website for Internet Movie Database (IMDB), there is a list of the locations where they shot for the movie. It doesn't specifically say *what* they shot at each location, but it tells you *where* at any rate (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045061/locations).

Still haven't made that trip. Have I now got more reasons than ever to do it ? All the renewed interest in "The Quiet Man" (MO'H's celebrated recent court case etc) has rekindled those old memories. Yea I gotta do it. " A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do ".....Oh Duke, why did you leave us ?